This week Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman officially launched Ode, an AI services company that combines Anthropic’s frontier AI models with a team of engineers and operators, backed by […]
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Founded this year by brothers Rohit and Rishabh Kumar, LexiTrove is taking a specialist approach to legal AI and focusing exclusively on UK employment law. The startup is building its […]
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The Justice Department has announced that the United States will pay $180 million to the Municipality of Anchorage to resolve long-running litigation over the failed Port of Alaska expansion project, closing out one of the more significant public-infrastructure disputes to arise from a federally supported construction effort.

The settlement ends litigation that has been unfolding for years over the unfinished…
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Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00421 on July 13, 2026. At this stage, the docket identifies Google as the petitioner, but the public caption information provided so far does not reveal the patent owner or the specific patent number in the case title alone. Even so, the…
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The law students and early-career lawyers are collaborating to build artificial intelligence solutions that address real-world legal workflow problems. The winner for the knockout-style competition will be determined on Monday.
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Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts clearance to business development and…
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By Tom Saunders Harvey announced today (16 July) that it has acquired Benchmark, a decision infrastructure platform for asset management. Benchmark is an AI platform that pulls together a private […]
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On of my favorite legal tech conferences is put on by American Association of Law Libraries and kicks off Saturday in Cleveland. This year’s theme focuses on leading with Aloha: leading with empathy, collaboration, and integrity in challenging world. There’s plenty of Aloha type sessions and lots of practical content as well. Here’s my take for Above the Law going…
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Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s president, effective July 13. In the new role, Brown continues to lead Relativity’s product organization while adding marketing and technology partnerships to his scope — a change that coincides with the departure of Chief Marketing Officer Cristina Rossman after more than …
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s July 14, 2026 institution decision in IPR2026-00276 is a reminder of the relatively modest—but still meaningful—threshold a petitioner must meet to get an inter partes review off the ground. In granting institution, the Board concluded that the petition established a reasonable likelihood that at least one challenged claim is unpatentable, clearing the statutory bar…
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